Holy shit. LTT is really not doing themselves any favors by starting this.

The faulty stuff they put out without even feeling bad about it is insane.

I’m glad to see GN put a piece like this out. I like LTT, enjoy a fair amount of their content, and I even like Linus as a person for the most part (from what can be seen publicly, no one is perfect and maybe he eve sucks IRL, I don’t know), but I have had a number of issues with some of Linus’ “takes” and the quality of the content that has been put out.

I think Linus is better than a lot of people I have met in recognizing certain biases, but he still has them and he will sometimes dig in on certain things rather than even acknowledge the what or why of the other side of the argument (a good example being the “trust me bro” stuff).

A personal critique I have of a lot of their graphs and charts is that the colors often don’t make any sense, nor are they very color blind friendly. I’m not myself, but I do generate a lot of graphs and such in my professional life and I think it could be done in a lot better way.

Then again who cares about what I think, I’m just some rando on the internet.

I am curious to see if Linus watches the whole video before he responds. He does have a tendency it seems to just ask for a summary or to just kinda scrub through and not pay attention.

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I used to enjoy LTT as an entertainment channel but I never watched it to gain any insight on the parts they covered. This is a great breakdown of why they cannot be trusted, and it’s really sad to see Linus continue to die on the hill.

LTT had a video where they rolled dice to build a computer that they were giving away (or “selling” for a dollar to avoid the legal issues around a giveaway, though IMO loopholes like that should be closed), and it was a bit of a shitshow where they were making/adjusting the rules as they went because some of the parts weren’t even compatible.

But the main point I’m making is when they were rolling for the GPUs, they even mentioned that a few of the GPUs they had as potential give away ones were ones that they didn’t own and that the company wanted back. No “oops” discovered after the fact, they said right in the video that it wasn’t theirs to sell but they were doing it anyways. They were EVGA cards that they wanted for their museum IIRC.

Not to mention the whole having a big sale where they make money from review samples sent to them for free seems shady. Like if they want to sell the hardware they bought themselves, fine, or if they are getting permission from the manufacturer or vendor to sell them, ok. But the fact that they sold that company’s best prototype despite clear indication that they wanted it back, not even at some vague future point but “right now” implies to me that LTT either doesn’t care or is so poorly organised that they are unable to manage borrowing inventory. I hope there were or are legal repercussions for that sale.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve watched LTT and even back then I found their reviews often suspect even back then especially with their TV reviews. It’s really sad to see how badly they’re doing now with them trying to become tech reviewers.

The new CEO should try to help with remediating things with Billet Labs. It’s one of the worst things, I feel. Auctioning off one of their only prototype water blocks instead of returning it when asked? Yikes.

I guess anything sent out for review should be sent with some kind of contract and terms.